I am looking to expand my knowledge on pile load testing and trying to follow an example that I have found in many bi directional load cell reports.
I am trying to create the equivalent top down load test curve. I can create the rigid pile curve as this is just reading displacement at say 1mm and reading the top and bottom plate loads corresponding to 1mm and adding them together.
Figure D
The issue is trying to modify the curve to allow for elastic compression.
The attached example includes a table showing Load on upper plate, load on bottome plate, P (which is sum of the two), then elastic pile settlement [sub]TLT[/sub], this is what i cant seem to work out. I can calculate pile settlement[sub]OLT[/sub]
pile settlement[sup]OLT[/sup] is the C1 correction middle formulae on pg 5 of 7 PDF.
I thought pile settlement[sub]OLT[/sub], would be the middle formulae on page 6 of 7, for Centroid Factor C1 but the results done match. Even using C1 = 1/3 or C1=1/2 formulae the elastic pile settlement from top load test doesnt match. The answers I am getting are shown below.
Hopefully someone can help!
Thanks.
J
I am trying to create the equivalent top down load test curve. I can create the rigid pile curve as this is just reading displacement at say 1mm and reading the top and bottom plate loads corresponding to 1mm and adding them together.
Figure D
The issue is trying to modify the curve to allow for elastic compression.
The attached example includes a table showing Load on upper plate, load on bottome plate, P (which is sum of the two), then elastic pile settlement [sub]TLT[/sub], this is what i cant seem to work out. I can calculate pile settlement[sub]OLT[/sub]
pile settlement[sup]OLT[/sup] is the C1 correction middle formulae on pg 5 of 7 PDF.
I thought pile settlement[sub]OLT[/sub], would be the middle formulae on page 6 of 7, for Centroid Factor C1 but the results done match. Even using C1 = 1/3 or C1=1/2 formulae the elastic pile settlement from top load test doesnt match. The answers I am getting are shown below.
Hopefully someone can help!
Thanks.
J